Losses at the Forest Service
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brownbear932008
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That's one of the key things people are missing here. Some of these agencies are already working 30% below full capacity or more. Another 5% or 10% is a tough blow to agencies already struggling to carry out their mission. And next is RIF procedures coming down the pipe. I feel like you it's time to do less with less.
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You're on the hunt but you didn't look deep enough. Elon is giving some folks a whiff of what appears to be a smoking gun for those who want to believe that there is massive governmental fiscal neglect and the root to all of their problems; keep em angry and let him do away with whatever he wants.
A billion condoms for Gaza for example (condoms cost the gov't $0.05). Do we even know how much transport would be necessary to ship 1 billion condoms to Gaza?
He was just in the oval office talking about Iron Mountain exposing "wasteful spending" storing documentation on federal employees retirement paperwork. The Iron Mountain storage facility is well known and in fact is used most information technology, software, healthcare and investment finance (your 401k), back ups. Anyone who knows about that place knows that it's primarily used for disaster recovery (like cyber attacks, hurricanes or terrorist attacks).
Look for the what's in it for Elon. He paid $290MM for the Trump campaign and has let the rest of MAGA know that he will fund their upcoming campaigns too (as long as they give him what he wants). The absolute best case scenario is that he's doing all of this because he needs to find $3 trillion dollars to fund his trip to Mars. What could be the worst case? Who has he been associating with over the past 2-3 years? Does he really have the best intentions for our country at heart?
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'There is no one left': Custer Gallatin National Forest workers reeling from job losses
The cuts weren’t isolated. Across the seven ranger districts that comprise the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Knight said she has heard of at least 32 terminations as of Monday.www.bozemandailychronicle.com
I was talking to a friend in NW MT and she said there were 50 terminations in their surrounding districts.
ismith
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Glad you caught that before I could quote your original post.
BuzzH
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The group I work with directly got "lucky", we only lost 2. However, it's 2 people that I care about, and 2 less than we can afford to lose already being so short staffed.
The calls I get asking for help are not pleasant.
thebestusernamesaretaken
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No-one voted for Elon
Yes, he was a vet who once out, worked his career at the Aberdeen Proving Ground doing some kind of weapons testing (never disclosed exactly what). They were downsizing and his offer was how they decided to reduce staff. Good for them (he and my mother in law).
Ready to go to mars dude? Good observation and being that musk is a great allocator of capital, most obviously the US government is the biggest hog to fund that mission
sapperJ24
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Another local article. It doesn't have a forest total, but based on what I've gathered so far, the Flathead NF lost close to 50 employees over the weekend.
‘It Hurts So Much’: Wilderness Workers and Park Employees Reel from Layoffs as Cuts to Federal Workforce Manifest in Montana - Flathead Beacon
When Jack Carroll received an email Friday explaining that his position with the Flathead National Forest was terminated because he “had not demonstrated that further employment at the agency would be in the public interest,” he replayed a greatest-hits list of memories spanning six summers of...
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thebestusernamesaretaken
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The real reason why USAID was suspended https://apnews.com/article/usaid-foreign-aid-trump-dictators-freeze-de4b211931515315ef699c8fc7d37239
In Venezuela, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the main enforcer of the ruling socialist party’s security apparatus, boasted last week on state TV that the aid channeled by USAID to the opposition was a “black box of corruption” that he vowed to investigate. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on X that he hopes the “notorious Deep State doesn’t swallow” Musk for pulling the plug on the agency.
In Nicaragua, a TV network owned by President Daniel Ortega’s sons declared that “Trump turned off the faucet” for the “terrorists.” Media outlets aligned with the Islamic leadership in Iran joked that the U.S. was treating its allies like “disposable tissues.”
Meanwhile, in Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko crowed that Trump’s decision to cut funding for the “fugitive opposition” was in response to his government’s calls for a reset of bilateral relations.
Lena Zhivoglod, head of Honest People, which was set up in 2020 to counter Lukashenko’s official narrative and end three decades of his iron-fisted rule, said that she will soon have to lay off 15 staffers and terminate the lease on the group’s office in Warsaw, Poland.
“This isn’t about 15 Belarusian emigrants in Poland being forced to leave their jobs,” said Zhivoglod. “It means losing yet another battle to the propaganda machines of the Lukashenko regime and the Kremlin — machines that bombard Belarusians daily.”
Among those impacted in the South American nation are journalists who’ve exposed corruption by top military and civilians officials, an organization that provides legal services to political prisoners and an election monitoring group that helped uncover credible evidence that President Nicolás Maduro stole last summer’s election.
“Trump is doing the work that Maduro could never accomplish: suffocating civil society,” said one of the activists impacted by the funding freeze and who on Monday started laying off dozens of contractors who’ve played a key role mobilizing opposition to Maduro.
Let’s make his trip to mars a one way ticket and he’s the only one on the ship.
Maybe he should look into using some of those condoms himself since he can’t seem to stop having kids
I’m good with just sending him back to South Africa and telling him he’s not welcome here
No one voted for him
BuzzH
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He probably got an even better conversion rate than standard CSRS.
thebestusernamesaretaken
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How valued do you think those folks are now? Are going to just collect a paycheck and wait for the next shoe to drop or are they motivated to complete their missions? Is this the kind of leadership they were hoping for?
BuzzH
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Good question, actually a great question.
Trails and rec sites are phucked. There is no arguing that on forests that lost that many employees.
I’ll say it again. Defund and decry. I’d be shocked if the push for transfer doesn’t come on the heels of this coming season.
ismith
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Isn't that a "hypothetical" question?
I hope our land managers spend a lot of budget this year on gates and barricades. The people cheering this need to feel the pain of not getting to use the places they previously have enjoyed. I’ve read so many awful comments online. Voting has consequences and for a bunch of rednecks I hope it’s not being able to go out into nature
BuzzH
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I don't see how they just don't shut down every trail, campground, etc. on FS land for the summer.
The choices are pretty limited.
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